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Trade liberalisation, Free Trade Agreements (FTA)

Issues surrounding international trade and investment loom large for most countries. We have extensive experience at analysing barriers to trade and investment in multilateral, bilateral and unilateral settings.

Evaluating free trade agreements between countries and regions is a key part of this work.

A second stream of work deals with trade and investment policymaking. The transparency of trade policy within the WTO is a highlight of this work as is the analysis of behind-the-border barriers to investment.

A feature of this work is the quantification of benefits and costs of changing barriers to trade and investment using global economy-wide dynamic models.

These studies typically involved:

quantitative analysis of the past and current trading relationship

construction of trade indices to ascertain whether economies were complementary or competing

stakeholder discussion to identify opportunities for export growth, and reasons why such potential is yet to be realised